Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been holding the line against short-range-weapons talks out of fear that negotiations will lead to a supposedly terrible state of affairs in Europe known as "denuclearization" -- the removal of all nuclear weapons from the Continent. According to the NATO catechism, denuclearization would make Europe "safe" for a conventional war that the Warsaw Pact, with its much vaunted superiority in soldiers and tanks, might be tempted to start and could probably win. According to another article of the dark faith, a denuclearized Western Europe would be "Finlandized": France, Italy and Belgium, but above all the Federal Republic of Germany...
Sometimes for a flat fee, often for a guarantee plus commission, old and young stars typically stay four hours on a Saturday and Sunday in an assembly line of dreams. Behind their tables, the idols scarcely speak or stir. "No time for personalizing" is the rule of the promoters, who keep the kids moving along like sad-eyed paratroopers. It's said that quick-draw artist Pete Rose averages two seconds a $15 scrawl. According to the Boston Globe, Ted Williams made $100,000 in one weekend...
Retailers are scrambling to pluck some gold from the green. Sales from K mart's spruced-up golf line this year will top those for either tennis or exercise equipment. Wilson Sporting Goods' golf-clothing sales have more than doubled since 1985, to $11 million annually. In California off-course golf shops like the Roger Dunn franchise seem to be sprouting on every corner. Says Dennis Davenport, executive director of the Chicago District Golf Association: "Anyone in the industry who is not doing well is doing something wrong...
...proof he needed to persuade skeptical party functionaries that the solution to the country's economic woes lies in accelerating reforms, not braking them. "The elections unequivocally said yes to perestroika," Gorbachev told the plenum. Added he: "We should have enough courage and ability to pursue consistently the line we have marked out under difficult conditions...
...view through May 14 at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, having been seen in Bologna (in a larger form) and Los Angeles. Reni was the leading Bolognese artist of the 17th century. For nearly 200 years after his death, he was adored by a long line of connoisseurs and tourists who held him to have been angelically inspired, the greatest painter of his age: as famous in his own way as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Van Gogh or Picasso. Percy Bysshe Shelley thought that if some cataclysm destroyed Rome, the loss of Raphael and Guido Reni would "be alone regretted...